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In my previous post here in which I asked where to find audio discounts, I was ridiculed and laughed at. I was told that audio discounts were now unobtainium, as extinct as dinosaurs; as in the past as the 1970's Crazy Eddie's Electronics.
On another site, I was scolded for even think of asking about discounts (not kidding)! I was lectured that asking for a discount on audio equipment was an insult and an inhuman act to an almost unpardonablely criminal degree.
Well... I found a discount on the Audio Technica AT VM95EN stylus for $69.00. That's 40% off of list. Actually, there are some heros (^^^) selling it for $257.00 online.
I found it here -->
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Audio-Technica-AT-VMN95EN-Replacement-Stylus/115838976
Also, I pickup up some good deals on Emotiva's site for their discontinued amps.
If I understood those who scolded me for seeking discounts, I must now contact Walmart and pay them back double of the discount price. I'll do that right away ;]
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I got some components from him at very low prices. I guess a group of retailers of the ilk of Lyric got together and drove him off. Mashuguna Mike was good too. So were all those mysterious black clad guys who came out of the basement of those buildings at Canal street with your order of Marantz and Fisher stuff at the lowest prices.
Bill
He was a criminal.
Actually Lyric was a great incentive to rush to Eddie and buy. After all fraud wasnt invented yesterday.
Bill
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I ask because Google searches will often hit on Walmart but they don't actually have the item in stock at any nearby store or for purchase online. If they do have it for sale, it is often from a third-party, some with poor fulfillment and customer service. Check the actual seller.But YES. There are discounts everywhere but you often have to ask. A mere 15% to 20% off on high-end gear is not difficult to find. Much bigger discounts on mass market brands online.
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Back in the late '70s I made a job change which didn't work out. That resulted in my need to downsize my audio system.
I found a local pair of used Maggie MG-1s. Then, influenced by a couple of British mag reviews I shopped for a Sansui 717 integrated amp. The best prices were at a couple of East Coast discount houses. I was in SoCal. A local dealer that carried a mix of hi-end and mid-fi products advertised weekly that they would "beat any advertised price". They carried Sansui.
So I took a copy of the discount house ad and an audio pal as a witness and went in to buy a new 717. The sales guy swallowed hard and said he'd need to speak with the manager. The manager then said they couldn't sell it for such a price, but I insisted, pointing to their ad and the discount house promo. He relented and they sold it to me for a nickel less than the discount house quote.
The Sansui turned out to be a great match with the Maggies.
Within a week their ads changed. They then stated "will beat any locally advertised price". Hey, I just took them at their word. ;^)
"The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play things I never heard myself." Thelonious Monk
That's how I, and everyone I knew, bought our systems--from those catalogs.
a lot of audiophiles are douchebags. And the ones that are really let their douchebag flags fly on audio forums.
It's funny that so many people get their panties in a bunch everytime I say I hate audiophiles.
Glad you found discounts. Sorry you had to wade through the bullshit of other audiophiles.
is giving a 15% discount thru the end of this week. I use their jumpers
and speaker wire and like both a lot.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Recent discussion re onslow gel stylus cleaner: you can buy the same thing as a drummer's accessory for $6
great stuff
amongst others
I remember when the owner of Moongel walked in my store one day with a salesman and started telling me about the product as a drum practice pad and drumhead harmonics damper. I told him I'd been using it for a couple months and loved the stuff. I've been using it ever since on many different things, including headshells
No association with them, but they keep sending me announcements on sales. Are their cables as good as claimed - no idea. But they have a sale going on if of interest.
Best sale in my mind is to watch and be very patient (6 months to a year) for a good deal on a great piece of quality used audio equipment that someone just wants to move because they've bought something else.
They seem to provide a very natural sound. You don't want to start at the bottom, but as you go up on their line, it's a very small jump for each level, starting at the 2 series, with the 3 series being 'nothing really wrong with them'. I'm only talking interconnects. I'm not sure if I'd trust their speaker wires in terms of robustness of construction though.They have updated their connectors through the years, so you may not want to grab a really old version from the used market unless the price was just right.
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I found that Morrow's are very good, and reasonably priced, but yes, they are perpetually on sale. A gimmick to say the least.
I think you can get 35-45% off (depending on the model) year round, and those discounts have been increased to 45-55% for Black Friday.
voolston - audiophile by day, music lover by night
My understanding is that Morrow Audio equals China Audio. My policy is to stay away from guys who sport gold chains, gold watches or gold rings and Mike Morrow wears all of them after he graduated from a DIY audio manufacturer of tube amps to importer of Chinese audio products.
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I didn't see any Chinese products on his website. Maybe you have confused him with Audioquest?
My bad. Last time I checked out Mike Morrow over a decade ago he was importing Chinese amps after he quit making his own so I was sure he also imports Chinese cables after I saw him dressed like a pimp on Audio Show. Apparently cables are the most profitable audio business and wives rarely notice that the $$$ cables changed.
I've had a pair for years. My Quad 57's were always used with 4tc Kimber as a reference and always held their own. I read many good things on the Morrow so I bit. They have a noticeable increase of detail at the extreme high frequencies, not gobsmaking but noticeable enough to now keeping them in the system.
They have multiple strands of very small diameter wire blue and white in color, Teflon insulate, and do not have a large gauge. They are not bass shy either. They are also delicate relative to others and should not be mishandled when installing, but these are the ones I have which surely are older than what they may have now, I don't know.
I don't own Kimber 4TC but I have a couple pairs of their 8TC. This braided speaker cable IS in fact rolled off in every system I have tried them in over the decades. The bass is noticeably reduced with Kimber 8TC even compared to Home Depot lamp cord.On the other hand, I really like the unshielded twisted braid Kimber KCAG silver interconnects in the right setup. These are very transparent but they can pickup RFI. I had them on a tube preamp years ago and they picked up my local high power AM radio station (KOA). The cure was to use a pair of shielded interconnects instead. Problem 100% solved.
KOA AM Radio:
KOA is a Class A, clear-channel station, broadcasting at 50,000 watts non-directional, the maximum power permitted by the Federal Communications Commission for AM stations. By day, the station is easily heard around Eastern Colorado, including cities such as Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Fort Collins. With a good radio at night, the signal can be heard over the Central and Western United States, and parts of Canada and Mexico. KOA is nicknamed "the Blowtorch of the West".[2] It is Colorado's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
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Just curious, my local 50,000w AM station (KGO) has three towers arranged east/west in San Francisco Bay.
Would this be a directional array?
kind of makes sense if your target market is the peninsula to have a directional transmission that follows the peninsula's orientation.
Not to many buyers sitting in the ocean or sailing on the bay.
. I judge any sound system by how tiring it is to listen to.
Linkwitz
The late Dr Wattenberg who had a late night show on KGO claimed he had listeners in Canada and Mexico.
Something about the ionosphere at night enabling that.
KGO AM appears to have a directional antenna pattern according to the link below. It says the antenna is directional and if you scroll down the page you will see the theoretical antenna pattern.KOA AM in my area is a 50-KW station with a single tower omni-directional antenna located only 4 miles from me. I can pickup that station with a 1-foot long wet noodle receiving antenna and 1N34 germanium diode detector..... or just about any tube preamp with unshielded interconnects ;-)
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Wow, there's a lot to it.
and the TV commercials. Good for you, hope you enjoy!
I guess some people don't like it when others are happy with relatively inexpensive gear.......
I will criticize people for a lot of things...... Saving money on audio gear is not one of them.
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